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The family firm : monarchy, mass media and the British public
The Family Firm presents the first major historical analysis of the transformation of the royal household’s public relations strategy in the period 1932-1953. Beginning with King George V’s first Christmas broadcast, Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new phase in the House of Windsor’s approach to publicity. This book also focuses on audience …
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- 9781909646940
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- 446
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- 659.29941084 EDW t
Understanding leisure
First published in 1989. Understanding Leisure is a readable introductory analysis of the key elements in the study of leisure. This includes leisure concepts and dimensions of leisure, its activity forms, participants, provision, and leisure futures, leisure and social theory. A collaborative work of six authors, Understanding Leisure is a textbook which introduces the reader to the interrelat…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780429054570
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- xi, 274 p
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- -
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- 306.4812 HAY u
Negotiating the North : meeting-places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea zone
This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practic…
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- 9781003045663
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- xx + 349 p
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- 948.02 SEM n
Schools as Community Hubs : building ‘more than a school’ for community b…
This open access book brings together research on the planning, design, governance and management of schools as community hubs—places that support the development of better-connected, more highly integrated, and more resilient communities with education at the centre. It explores opportunities and difficulties associated with bringing schools and communities closer together, with a focus on t…
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- 1
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- 9789811999727
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- xi, 334p. : ill.
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- 371.19 SCH s
An equal burden : the men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War
An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). These men, through their work as stretcher bearers and orderlies, provided a range of labour, both physical and emotional, in aid of the sick and wounded. They were not professional medical careg…
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- 9780198824169
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- xv ; 220p. : ill.
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- 940.47541 JES a
Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia
The present edition of Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia consists of fragmentary comments headed ‘New Wales’, dating from 1791; a compilation of material sent to William Wilberforce in August 1802; three ‘Letters to Lord Pelham’ and ‘A Plea for the Constitution’, written in 1802–3; and ‘Colonization Company Proposal’, written in August 1831, the…
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- 9781787359369
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- xvii, 491 p.
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- -
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- 365.3409944 PAN T
Post-war architecture between Italy and the UK : exchanges and transcultural …
Italy and the UK experienced a radical re-organisation of urban space following the devastation of many towns and cities in the Second World War. The need to rebuild led to an intellectual and cultural exchange between a wave of talented architects, urbanists and architectural historians in the two countries. Post-war Architecture Between Italy and the UK studies this exchange, exploring how th…
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- 9781800080836
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- xi, 277 p. ill;
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- -
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- 724.6 POS L
Science policy under Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a professional politician, and she maintained a close…
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- 9781787353411
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- viii, 304p.; ill.
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- -
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- 509.42 SCI a
Repurposing the green belt in the 21st century
The green belt has been one of the UK’s most consistent and successful planning policies. Over the past century, it has limited urban sprawl and preserved the countryside around our cities, but is it still fit for purpose in a world of unprecedented urban growth and potentially catastrophic climate change? Repurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century examines the history of the green bel…
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- 11
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- 9781787358843
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- xiv, 185p.; ill.
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- -
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- 307.120941 REP b
The Making of an Imperial Polity : Civility and America in the Jacobean Metro…
Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled histories of colonialism and domestic status and governance. The Jacobean era is reframed as a definitive moment in which the civil self-prese…
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- -
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- 9781108625227
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- xiv, 270 p ; ill
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- -
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- 970.02 MAK L
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